Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020

On March 15-16, 2007, a forum entitled HCI 2020: Human Values in a Digital Age, was held in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain, just outside Seville. Its purpose was to gather luminaries in computing, design, social sciences, and scientific philosophy to discuss, debate and help formulate an agenda for human-computer interaction (HCI) over the next decade and beyond.

Download the report [PDF A4, 3MB]

Visit the website: http://research.microsoft.com/hci2020

The BBC has an article on it. The examples in the video are very ordinary and not at all interesting (how complicated it is to receive an audio clip, just put a button or use NFC!). Microsoft Research published a more interesting interview with the event’s organiser Richard Harper.

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